A Heath Springs man was severely injured Tuesday when a log truck swerved into his lane on S.C. 903 and slammed into his SUV about 5 miles east of Lancaster.
Stephen Faile, 46, was trapped in his 1991 Chevrolet Blazer for about 40 minutes. First responders extracted Faile by cutting apart the crushed vehicle surrounding him, then airlifted him to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.
The extraction took longer than normal, said county Fire Marshall Russell Rogers.

If you live in Lancaster, Heath Springs or Kershaw and think you don’t have a dog in the Panhandle incorporation fight, you are mistaken.
Incorporation by Indian Land would directly affect taxpayers in the county’s other towns because the new municipality would be far more populous and would suck up a large majority of Local Option Sales Tax revenue.
Raised through a local 1-cent sales tax, LOST money is used to provide tax relief for local homeowners through property-tax credits.

Former Lancaster High star basketball player Ron Trapps has returned to Lancaster after earning two college degrees to give back to the community where he was raised.

Trapps, 24, is Palmetto Citizens Against Sexual Assault’s new Engaging Men Project coordinator.

The result of a three-year, $346,680 federal grant, the Engaging Men Project aims to educate young men on sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence and stalking. The grant will fund training, forums and annual men’s conferences.

County officials have given the developers of nine Indian Land subdivisions a Dec. 31 deadline to file required letters of credit that would allow the county to take their streets into the county system.
If they don’t, the subdivisions’ homeowners associations will take on permanent responsibility for all road maintenance.
“The HOAs are gonna get ’em, which will irritate a lot of homeowners,” said County Attorney John Weaver. “They bought into these subdivisions believing the roads would be taken in the county.”

A 14-year-old Indian Land resident has died after he was seriously injured when his bicycle hit a tree near the Carolina Thread Trail on Nov. 19.
Lancaster County Coroner Karla Deese identified the victim as Garrett Howison.
According to Garrett’s obituary, he and his family had moved to Walnut Creek from Xenia, Ohio, in August. His parents are Jason and Angie Howison.

Angela Renee Blackwell, the Chester woman who confessed to killing her newborn last year by putting him in a refrigerator, was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday.
Blackwell, 28, appeared before Circuit Judge Dan Hall at the Chester County Courthouse. She pleaded guilty to infliction of great bodily harm in the death of her 4-day-old son William David Paul Lewis.

Jim McKeown Jr., owner, editor and publisher of the Kershaw News Era for three decades, was found dead Thursday in his home. He was 66.
McKeown, who came from a newspaper-industry family, was known for his columns and hard work at the paper.
“He was the paper,” said Kim Roberts, a 16-year freelancer for the Kershaw News Era. “He had ink in his blood.”
Roberts said McKeown called him after the sports editor died of cancer two days before football season started.